Leigh High School Newspaper

Category: Opinion

Every year seniors organize unofficial “ditch days,” when a majority of students will either call themselves out of school, ask their parents to, or just ditch. A large number of faculty and staff are opposed to these days because they are concerned students might fall…

College is one of the biggest influences on your life as it may present you with job opportunities and friendships that last forever. College is a half-decade of memories being made each and every day and you want to make sure that those memories are…

On Sep. 14, Leadership announced that this year’s homecoming would be different than other years’. They said that the homecoming court winners this year would be homecoming royalty instead of the traditional homecoming king and queen. The idea of homecoming royalty would allow a possible…

A brutal hurricane season that started this summer has caused devastation throughout islands in the Atlantic and in the southern United States. From Aug. 25 to Sept. 3, Hurricane Harvey (Category 4) hit southern Texas as well as Louisiana. Not soon after, Irma (Category 4)…

It’s 11 p.m. and you, a high school student, are still in the middle of a piece of homework with perhaps a whole other one to do right after. You probably should’ve started all your work earlier. Maybe you did but it still took you…

Democrats, Republicans, and independents usually are in agreement over the fact that a president should be dependable, trustworthy, and professional. However, in recent years, Republicans seem to have thrown these values to the wind. Allegedly, President Donald Trump, in a meeting with lawmakers over immigration…

Recently popular YouTubers and other content creators have made videos which were meant to get huge views for money but just ended up creating controversy. These videos either ended in backlash or with the people in the video getting in trouble with the law. Logan…

Valentine’s Day is a holiday that is often celebrated by couples or people who are infatuated with the thought of love. However, is the proper way to show how much you care for someone with a superficial gift? By late January, if one walks into…

Though the marching band itself could hardly be considered an insidious or bigoted organization, according to sources in marching band, a small subset of people within the organization have been saying and doing things which are, quite frankly, unacceptable. Under the condition of anonymity, a…

A brutal hurricane season that started this summer has caused devastation throughout islands in the Atlantic and in the southern United States. From Aug. 25 to Sept. 3, Hurricane Harvey (Category 4) hit southern Texas as well as Louisiana. Not soon after, Irma (Category 4)…